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Thursday, January 8, 2015

#Selfie

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Enough of the selfies in the
New Year.

Selfies would get you good
pictures. They may even be great pictures, but you’re limited, especially when
you’re wearing a really great outfit. You wouldn’t be able to take shots
yourself from great angles of your outfit at a go.

Stop going around proudly declaring
how self-reliant you are. There is more, and you can’t get that much more if
you don’t hand the camera over to someone else. Someone, who will take
continuous shots, full pictures of your outfit, and portraits from different
angles. I use a tripod for selfies sometimes, but it isn’t as easy breezy as I
want it to be.

You have your talents, great,
but sometimes with your self-efforts, you don’t explore half of what you’ve
got. It may look great, but it could be greater.

Let God be your help this
year. That’s what He wants to do… He desires to help you.

I have toddlers hanging off
me on every side, and it gets frustrating when I want to help them open a pack
of sweet or a new toy or something and they fight me off… they don’t want me to
help and I storm off sulking and waiting for them to fail because I know they
would, their self efforts are quite useless (most
of the time, in certain situations) and when they come back to me after all
their selfies/self efforts, I smugly look at them and tell them “I told you!!! I offered to help earlier and
you rejected my help, why are you coming back to me?” It takes a lot of
begging and maybe the dropping of a few tears to move me to help. Thank God, He
isn’t like humans. He would leave you alone to take your selfies if you insist,
but He’s ever willing to help if you hand it over to Him, He wouldn’t give the
cold soldier like we do as humans.

Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and
earth. Psalm 124:8

I read something in Khaleid
Hosseini’s book ‘And the mountains echoed’ that struck a cord in me. It said, “… if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there
underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to
dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own
demise.”

It made me think how we as humans react. Sometimes we’re stuck in
situations, but because we’re so self-reliant, we refuse to call for help from
the one source of all help… thus in our trying to rescue ourselves, we keep
digging deeper and deeper in the wrong direction. Sometimes, the only way out of a
dilemma is taking the hand of help stretched out to you.

Its time to stand
still and see the salvation of God… stand still and let Him take your perfect
pictures for you. Standing still is such a powerful statement, it means
resting, not being lazy as some of us would love it to mean, but relaxing enough
to know that your efforts wouldn’t do the half of it, so you call for His help,
and listen for His directions.

You need help! You can’t do
it on your own. Don’t be proud. You are worth nothing as a self-made man… it
sounds good to call yourself that, but your self foundation would crumble one
way or the other. I do not have self-confidence… I have God confidence. I am a
God-made woman. God-helped woman, and because I am, my dreams would outlive me and economic condition... I will have peace even when storms come against my dreams.

How does God help? Sometimes,
by sending men to our rescue. We can’t remain isolated, your breakthrough may
be in the hello you say to the neighbor you’ve walked past for years, he may
have just what you’ve been looking for, or you may have just what he’s been
looking for. God also sends help by giving us the Holy Spirit. “And I will pray the
Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you
forever— “ Hebrew 14:16

Following the leading of the
Holy Spirit is leaning on the help of God to achieve great feats.

I choose to be Spirit led not
just this year, but for all of my days. I choose to start being conscious of
those I come in contact with, online or physically, you never know what man God
is going to use to move you ahead. I have received help/and heard of people who
received help from unexpected sources in the past. A major oil deal was missed,
because two men who sat next to each other for years in church never went past
the ‘hello’ formalities. One had the services the other was looking for and they
only got talking a day after the deal had been signed with someone else. Now that’s mad crazy.

I choose to rest in the help
of God… I’m done with the selfies. (Well, not the physical selfies, I’m so not
done with that, not just yet)